I think Johnson, Thomas, Peterson, Willis, and Revis can easily be future HOFers. Still, it's hard to argue with '83. That year produced three HOF QBs and an extra 2x Pro Bowl QB in Ken O'Brien. Not to mention the other positions.

But two weeks before the draft, Sanders ran a 4.39 40-yard dash during an impressive workout in Stillwater, Okla. Up until then, the Packers had a 4.55 time for Sanders, which was nothing to get excited about. Once Sanders wowed scouts with his speed, Lindy Infante, the Packers’ coach at the time, began to lobby on his behalf. The debates began and continued up until 48 hours before the draft.

“Lindy had a lot of trouble with it,” Tom Braatz, the Packers’ former vice president of football operations, said after the Mandarich pick had been announced. “He really liked Sanders. We talked seriously about it -- long drawn-out deals – as late as Friday. After hashing it out with all the coaches and all the scouts and Lindy and myself, we decided Mandarich was better.”

Braatz went on to say: “We had just taken (Brent) Fullwood and we had (Don) Majkowski, so we had a quarterback and a running back."

The Green and Gold Podcast on You-Tube has been doing a series of what-if episodes, and on the one on Mandarich, one of the guys on there said that Packer fans can rest easy because they researched, and they didn't find anything that suggested that GB would take Barry.